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Promulgate: meaning, example and synonyms

Promulgatev. To make an idea, law, or belief widely known; to proclaim it officially.

Flashcard for Promulgate (verb): to make an idea, law, or belief widely known; to proclaim it officially. Example: The reformers promulgated their theories of public sanitation through pamphlets and lectures until the ideas became accepted wisdom among city planners. Synonyms: proclaim, disseminate, publicize, broadcast. Antonyms: suppress, conceal, withhold, stifle. Memory tip: PROmulgate = PROclaim and PROmote: spread it far and wide. Illustration: a speaker in a long nineteenth-century coat on a raised wooden platform in a town square addressing a large attentive crowd, helpers handing out blank pamphlets; people drawn naturally and fully clothed, no logos, signs, flags, written words or sound effects.

Example

The reformers promulgated their theories of public sanitation through pamphlets and lectures until the ideas became accepted wisdom among city planners.

Part of speech
verb
Synonyms
proclaim, disseminate, publicize, broadcast
Antonyms
suppress, conceal, withhold, stifle
Memory tip
PROmulgate = PROclaim and PROmote: spread it far and wide.

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Question 1

Missionaries and merchants alike ______ the new calendar across the region, until communities that had never adopted it began using it in daily trade.

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The academy ______ its standardized spelling rules through dictionaries and school textbooks, spreading them to every province.

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